with more. tom? >> reporter: what is remarkable, little to no face to face talk as we have seen in the past. president played golf and republican controlled house passed bills while the democratically controlled senate didn't bother to stay in session. with time running out. >> speaker boehner is not allowing a vote on a simple bill to keep the government funded. >> president obama met with eye iran's president. >> president obama: the first in

u.s. history >> reporter: republicans held firm, john boehner says gop has passed bills delaying 'obamacare,' senate rejected them. >> senate decided not to work yesterday. my goodness, if there is such an emergency, where are they? >> ayes 54, nays 46. >> senators voteed to strip the anti'obamacare' from spending bill. barbara mcclowesski voted against. >> it was deliberately designed to be provocative. continuing resolutions are about decemb disputes over money. they are not about viewpoints over past legislation. >> the obama administration

warned shut down or shut down it insures changes for tuesday. we are less than 24 hours away from open enrollment. >> there is no guarantee the federal government will be in business itself. >> white house today, president obama led a cabinet meeting to show how to proceed furlough guidance went up on the official office of personal management opm.gov. matt. >> tom fitzgerald, thank you. can anything be done on capitol hill at this late hour to avoid a government shut down? let's go live to will thomas on the hill tonight. what are you hearing at this hour? >> reporter: matt, this has been

kicked back to the house. gentleman, thank you for joining us here on the 6. where do things stand, i understand you are about to take a vote? >> we are about to take a vote on the rule. it will allow leadership want to add to the cr sent from the senate. >> reporter: talk about the viter amend. this would affect members and staff as well. >> it is an amendment that would uniquely single out members of staff to deny employer contribution of health care. a contribution most companies provide and contribution has provided every other federal

employee. democrats are not going to accept hostage taking over funding of the federal government. >> reporter: what do you say to this. obviously republicans are set on stalling 'obamacare,' you wouldn't say this is a scare tactic. >> this is an issue about fairness. look at the tax exempt subsidies, members of congress, members of staff and president cabinet can't get that. we want to make sure members of congress and staff treated like everybody else. it is a matter of fairness. president exempted employers from the mandate. we are asking individuals be exempted for a period of a year. this is an issue of fairness in what we are asking for in this. >> reporter: both of you know what this shut down could mean.

i spoke with jim moran from virginia. you both must be hearing from constituents very worried. >> certainly in my district, all i heard was don't shut down the federal government and what are those people thinking? i respect my friend but respectfully disagree. if this is a matter of fairness, bring it up as a separate piece of legislation, to tack it on at the 11th hour and put a gun to people's head saying accept it or else is no way to run the government. >> jerry is right, shut down is not in anybody's best interest. all we have before us is what we have from house leadership. i am going to vote to continue to fund the government. when i have an opportunity with an issue of fairness, i am

voting for favor of that. >> thank you for joining us, hope to see you live at 10:00. matt, when you threw to me, what am i continuing to hear? the shut down is sounding more likely. senate doesn't seem like they want to compromise when it comes to 'obamacare.' we are staying here to monitor this. >> great debate, will. stay with fox 5 on continuing coverage. we'll have the latest at 10:00 and news 11:00. stay up to date at myfoxdc.com. our news team will be updating information on twitter and facebook. now to a story you saw first on fox 5, d.c. council member says rules must be changed. this comes after inspectors that police the drivers do not undergo background checks.

paul wagner is live with this. >> reporter: neither the taxi cab commission conducts -- they admitted three convictions for robbery and arrested multiple times. >> d.c. hack inspectors work the streets and power to impound taxis. the chairman of the taxi commission was surprised that one had a lengthy criminal record and didn't know the background of any of the employee which angered taxi drivers. >> i find it appalling we didn't do checks and b the commission didn't know if we did checks and

the complete lack of information about it. i am not saying just because someone has a criminal record of any kind of however hold a date they would be disqualified. we need to know what crimes they have committed to go into court and be credible as enforcers. >> mary has oversight on the d.c. council. fox 5 is not identifying the inspector because he has not been suspending. matt. >> paul wagner live in the news room. up next on "news edge at 6:00" do gun regulations take effect in maryland tomorrow? there are last minute efforts to block them. sue is here. beautiful weekend and beautiful

day. i call this l.a. weather. >> this is what it is like in l.a. now i feel like i have been there. matt, saying good-bye to september. it is october, and going to warm up even more. that and more on "news edge at 6:00." 

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>> welcome back, edge on maryland, a last minute effort to stop a ban on certain guns is meeting some resistants. two lawsuifiled challenging aspects of the ban. the law would add 45 guns to the list and handgun magazines to 10 rounds. court hearing on the first case set for tomorrow. now for the edge on virginia, where those fighting for gay marriage are focussing their efforts there.

it hasn't been long since supreme court turned defense of marriage act. they are planning to do the same in virginia. >> this is a matter of critical importance to gay and lesbian citizens around this country. critical importance to the children they are raising. it is also critical importance to every citizen of this country who cares about equality. >> reporter: to overturn virginia's constitutional amendment, general assembly would have to vote twice separated by an election. still ahead on news edge, how local police departments train their k9 squads. the best of the best are in our area, stay with us. 

>> this week police from all over the country are bringing more than 100 of the best k9

officers to southern maryland. fox 5 holly morris shows us what it takes to be the top dog in law enforcement. >> reporter: you are watching one of the top k9 teams in all of north america. that is who is in charles county competing for title of "top dog" so to speak as the united states k9 association is hosting its national field trials. with me is captain mike whacky. >> how are you? >> reporter: this is a big deal? >> absolutely. you have the top dogs. it is a good thing for charles county and sheriff's office. >> reporter: they had to qualify? >> there is 26 regions in united states and canada. they have to get a substantial score to be invited here. >> reporter: what are some of the things they have to do? >> we are doing agility phase. you saw the dog complete the

hurdles. this simulates exercise the handlers will do on the street hopping walls, climbing ladders. in the beginning of our training, it builds a little bond between the handler and the dog, a trust issue. >> reporter: you have agility course and obedience part and evidence collection. >> you start off with obedience, hand and voice signals, that is the foundation for police k9 training. obstacles, evidence search where the dogs are to find two discarded items and a 30x30 square and a suspect search. they hide in one of six boxes and have to locate and handler has to distinguish. then we do a criminal appear

apprehensive series and command the bad guys to come back and, handler protection and under gun fire. >> reporter: that is impressive and amazing to see in person. all of the competitions are open and free to the public. they have a public demonstration going on thursday night at 6:00 at north pointe high school. you might want to make a trip out here to charles county and witness that. this is pretty. >> absolutely. at the conclusion of our demonstration thursday there will be fireworks, it is free to the public. >> reporter: i can say nothing to top that. in charles county, holly morris fox 5 news. >> we were noticing how beautiful the weather looked in that shot with holly. >> the lot is changing now that the equinox has passed and light disappearing with us.

it makes it easy with the comfortable temperatures. only thing wrong with the forecast, it is dry. last time we had significant rain is september 21st. i don't have rain for the next several days. it is one thing we are rooting for in the forecast. in the meantime, we'll take what we get, temperatures in the mid 70s and glorious monday and wonderful farwell to september. 74° right now, lovely evening. our temperatures in the suburbs down to 70. october which begins tomorrow is going to warm up. we have several days at or above 80 in the forecast. you can see this big stripe of hot air working its way up to the middle part of the country. the great big storm system tilts the odds in our favor, a little bit of a sea saw in the

atmosphere. tomorrow 81°, more clouds than sun until later in the afternoon. some of the clouds are rolling in tonight and they will help keep us from getting too chilly. wednesday's temperature, 84. maybe warmer for some of you, thursday more of the same, temperatures into the mid 80s. find the shorts for the kids, there are going to be warm by recess. at the surface tomorrow clouds will be around, we'll be warm and high and dry thanks to high pressure that rules the east coast most of the week. as the week goes on and wednesday into thursday, frontal boundary closer. we think it is not going to produce much rain and reenforce the good stuff we have right now. mostly clear skies earlier today, a bank of clouds moves in from the west and with us in the overnight hours and around for a portion of the day tomorrow. the rest of the country, pretty

settled with exception of this big storm early season snow for some of them while we stay ruled by high pressure in the east coast. five, six days in 80s, low 80s. maybe a chance for showers and perhaps rumble of thunder, sunday, monday. that is our next chance for rain. don't go anywhere, "news edge at 6:00" will be right back. the sa. so...when we have cheerios, it's kind of like we are having breakfast with nana... yeah... ♪ yeah. you're so smart.

>> hello everybody, dave ross live from the redskins park. redskins are experiencing victory monday from the win in oakland yesterday. normally on monday you are disecteded the game.

yesterday the game wasn't about rg3 how about the defense yesterday? it was pretty darn good. yesterday a huge day. starting with the pressure up front, each two sacks and defense registered seven in all back up quarterback. david amerson who changed the entire complexion of the game with first career interception in a game changer and amerson talked about about pick six after the game. >> it felt good. kind of like a dream come true. a pick six. >> everybody did a phenomenal job. young amerson coming out with a pick six. we have to continue to build.

>> reporter: as far as the offense goes, they went no huddle primarily in the first quarter. skins' offense to score in the first halves, one offensive touchdown. the defense has three by themselves. mike shanahan explained the reason. >> it is always good when you use something nobody has ever seen before. you catch people off balance a bit. that is what we did. i think it is a good change up. i like what we did both in running game. they weren't used to our play action offenses and got the momentum going in our direction. sometimes you have to come up with different packages and use it when we need to. at that time i thought we needed it. >> reporter: tomorrow we have our first bizarre scenario, game

153 tampa bay takes on texas. the winner will have a one-game scenario tomorrow when they take on cleveland in actual wild card game. it is in fact, over. the regular season. that means the end of the career of one davey johnson. the nl east just a season ago. the 70-year-old johnson was asked if he had a special message for his players. >> no. i have spoke enough. i said something last night. that is enough for them. i am not dropping off the face of the earth. i am still going to be around. i might even see you guys again. who knows. so -- any way nice seeing you guys, good-bye. [laughter]. >> reporter: big question now

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